NAZRAN, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Three people were killed after
unidentified
assailants attacked the house of a Russian family in the town of Karabulak
in
the North Caucasus Republic of Ingushetia, a police source said on Sunday.

Unidentified attackers broke into a house at Moskovskaya Street on Sunday
and
shot down the grandfather, his daughter-in-law and also a neighbor who was
in
the house at that time. The wife of the head of the family was wounded,
the
police source said.

This is the latest crime in a series of similar incidents in the republic
neighboring troubled Chechnya, which saw two Moscow-led military campaigns
against
separatist regimes in the 1990s- early 2000s.

In the early hours of July 16, ethnic Russian teacher Lyudmila Terekhina,
55, and
her son and daughter were shot in their house in the town of
Ordzhonikidzevskaya.
Policemen said possible motives were robbery and nationalistic sentiments.
At their
funeral two days later a tripwire bomb went off leaving 11 people injured.

On August 31 unknown assailants broke into a house in the town of
Karabulak and shot
a Russian-speaking teacher's husband and two sons, 20 and 24 years
respectively,
with an automatic rifle.

The region is inhabited by a predominantly non-Slavic Muslim population.